Mumcu support for Spotify rebellion! 'Unacceptable choice'

We are doing something new, you pretend we haven’t done it. We are looking for an interlocutor for the artist, there is none!” he wrote. While Koç ’s girlfriend Hazal Subaşı and followers supported him, the musicians did not comment. Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Batuhan Mumcu responded, “Although international digital platforms such as Spotify have a significant user base in the Turkish market, they have neither opened a representative office nor taken responsibility for the local music culture. Aside from not fulfilling tax obligations, prioritizing sensation over quality in content algorithms; and highlighting content that encourages slang, violence and the use of banned substances in the lists is an unacceptable choice.”